St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-23
4 List of the Important Bills So Far In
troduced in the Senate and
House.
The Action That Has Been Taken and
Their Exact Standing at the Pres
ent Time.
The House Has 224 Bills on File
While the Senate Can Show
But 137.
Until the Committees Have Time to
Consider Them But Few Will
Become Laws.


This is very excellent record. considering
the fact that so much time was occupied in
i'll the election of a United States senator,
and 1t demonstrates that this session is to
be remarkable one for the amount of
work accomplished. Of course q large num-
Der of these bills are of a purely local char
acter, but there are good many of general
public interest, and it is certoin that much
important legislation will be enacted. No
bills have been passed as yet-otber than
those of local nature-they being in the
hands OF the respective committees tor con-
sideraton and to be put in shape. Follow
ing is list of the important bills so far ill
troduced, showing the number of the house
hle; the member introducing it; its title and
character; to what committee it was re-
ferred and how far it has progressed.
/ (DonneNy)-Relating TO the interest on
money. Bank. judiciary.
Donne lly)-ReIating to freedom of
ma rkets. Judiciary. Recommended to pass.
Donnelly)-To tax railroad companies
reading considered in committee of whole
and recommended to pass.
Notwithstanding railroad companies
Railroads. Recommended to pass.
lLeel-Taxing telegraph companies.
Taxes.
10 Donnely)-To prevent corruption of
public officers by railroad corporations. Ju-
dietary.
II Donneny)-Providing for annual ses-
sions Of the legislature. Judiciary.
13 (DOnneIy)-To punish corrupt use of
money in elections. Judiciary.
IA (LucaS)-Regulatng the employment of
convict labor. Judiciary.
II Uee)-Taxing express companies. Ju-
dietary.
% Lum)-To build bridge at Brainerd.
Finance.
% (Newell)-To prevent unreasonable de-
lay in payment of workingmen's wages. La
bor.
2s (Keyes)-To regulate common carriers.
Railroads.
81 (Reese)-To prevent combinations and
conSpracieS to control the market price of
grain. Grain Inspection.
SO (Newell)-To abolish the state board of
immigration. Labor. Recommended to pass.
Second reading.
81 (Newell)-To abolish process OF garnish-
ment as applied to workngmen. judiciary.
Recommended to be inde. ..nitely postponed,
but placed on file for second reading. Labor.
40 (POtter)-Reatiye to intoxicating liquors.
Temperance.
rs (Donnelly)-For the benefit of working
men and mechanics. Judiciary. Recon-
mended to pass.
50 (Sevatson) TO tax railroad lands. Rail
roads.
55 (DonneIy)-To control railroad corpora
64 Donneliy)-To secure postal rights for
the insane. Judiciary. Recommended to
pass.
IS (Keyes)-Abolishing the Office of oil in
spector. Judiciary.
20 Prosser)-To inforce high license. Tenn
perance.
95 (Williams)-To tax notes and mortgages.
Judiciary. Recommended to be indefinitely
postponed. On file for second reading. Second
reading.
los (Shuler)-For building a soldiers
home. Soldiers home.
109 (ROgers) Fixing the rate Of interest on
money. judiciary.
126 and 127 (Lum)-To create the fourteenth
and fifteenth judicial districts. Judic ary.
1872 (Donnely)-To regulate grain ware
houses, inspection, etc. Grain inspection.
13S (Freeman)-To build an addition to the
state normal school. Finance. Normal
schools.
155 (Mattson) )-Relating to elections. Ju-
dietary.
160 4Rette49wIo regulate actions for libel.
l65 (Donnelly)-Relating to elections Ju-
dietary. -
III (Bf1ne ettf7-To appropriate money for
the Mankato Normal school. Finance.
Normal schools.
179 (Baker)-To appropriate money to aid
in draining lands in the Red river valley.
Finance.
lS5 (Freeman)-To build bridge at St.
cloud QelegallOn-. SJ. CLOUD QelegatlOn.
200. MISUNDERSTANDING females the right
OF suffrage Judiciary.
207. (Donnelly)-To establish the nomen-
clature of the ltascan sources of the MissiS-
sippi river. Roads and manageable streams.
2IS. (Kreis)-To build bridge at Monti-
cello. Roads and bridges.
22222. (Potter)-Providing for a constitu-
tional convention. Judiciary.
IN THE SENATE.
No great burden of bills has the senate
forced upon itself, but Of the 1877 intro
duced, fOrty-eight may be called weighty
and of general interest in their importance,
and seven of these have been passed. They
cover the great questions embraced in the
party platforms of last fall. No sooner
had the senate organized than Senator
Goodrich of Blue Earth City, started IN for
high license. He introduced the first eight
bills of the session, the third raising the
age of consent, and the remaining five being
the bills recommended by the last railroad
commission. Then he prescribed a remedy
for grievances caused by the present tax
sales law. He sent up the long bill on
grain and warehouse inspection, also bill
of forty seven or more sections which the
railroad committee had also recommended.
Thus one man was made the instrument
through whom proposed legislation for the
temperance class, the farmer and the
cheated land owner, robbed under
the law pertaining to tax sales and judg-
ments was introduced. But the high license
railroad transportation, grain inspection
and tax title questions only cover a small
portion Of the legislative programme the
senate has mapped out for itself Good
rich went further and asked for postal
rights for inmates of insane aSylumS, legal
identity and rights for married women, the
TOW Df ofc Of, Io,A dc
and lastly, that women be allowed to vote
in Minnesota by constitutional amend
ment. The senate has passed his bill to
give postal rights to the confined insane,
and vii! doubtless pass the legal identity
for married women, the age of consent and
the tax title bills.
Other grave questions had their active
workers. Senator Bowen. of Sleepy Eye,
has worn the mantle of Thomas Wilson,
and declared war against certain land cor
poratiOnS owning over 1000 600 acres of
land, which for Years has been exempt from
taxation. Senator Pope, of Mankato,
has been the advocate of legislation
for the old veterans of the Union.
and bills for a soldiers home, burial of old
veterans and their preference in public en-
ployment, have been sent up to the desk
from him. the public preference bill being
passed. Senator Durant, of Saltwater.
has made an effort to prevent impostors
from getting the benefit of the proposed
soldier legislation by getting bill through
to prevent the unlawful wearing OF G. A.
Il. badges Marcus johnson also has
soldiers home bill. Senator Swenson, of
Minneapolis, has been the great labor adj
yocate. and among his bills are those to es-
tablish labor bureau to regulate the en-
plovment of children, and to prevent loco
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